← The Polylog AI Intelligence Brief
Morning Edition · Monday, October 26, 2026Published at 2:26 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI's Decisions API bills input tokens only and returns a typed answer in about 150 milliseconds
The endpoint charges $0.10 per million input tokens with no output or cache charges, and OpenAI says it is roughly ten times faster than routing the same decision through the Responses API.
OpenAI released the Decisions API in public beta on October 6, Unite.ai reported. The endpoint takes a developer-written question, a finite list of permitted answers, and a context that can be text or an image, then returns one of those ans…
Continue the AI Intelligence Brief
Track frontier labs, chips, export controls, model releases, regulation, and AI infrastructure.
- 5 AI intelligence signals a day
- Frontier labs, compute, and chips
- Model releases and AI infrastructure
- Source-grounded analysis with confidence labels
The Global Intelligence Brief stays free.
Part of a tracked trend
The Inference-Cost Efficiency Race
Techniques that cut tokens generated and KV-cache memory per query will keep compressing the marginal cost of serving reasoning models, making inference efficiency a recurring competitive axis alongside raw capability.
Townsquare
Start a discussion in Townsquare.
More from this edition
- Recursive releases Flint, a free coding model with 2.5 billion active parameters that it says its own AI research system mostly built
- Chinese AI firms offer up to 1.09 million yuan for deployment engineers as export-barred Nvidia B300 chips appear on China Telecom-linked systems
- Anthropic says a Claude research model designed 318,484 protein candidates in 64 hours, and 17 passed laboratory binding tests
- Anthropic prices Claude Opus 5.5 at 20% below Opus 5 per token and claims 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0
- Berkeley Lab cut beamline image analysis from months to about 15 minutes using Meta's open-weight vision models
- A mathematicians' association has 1,008 members pledged not to work with commercial AI companies
- Apollo's chief economist says AI has produced no financial payoff for United States companies outside technology
Comments
0No comments yet.